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I don’t know about you, but for me, there’s nothing like a pile of freshly boiled eggs and the smell of vinegar to bring back wonderful childhood memories of the day before Easter… around the table with my family! And… because eggs are so inexpensive this time of year, you should take a few minutes around the kitchen table, to create some memories… and a masterpiece with your little ones! To keep your eggs to use every year, blow the egg out, wash & dry, then paint with regular acrylic paints.Eggshell Carving Art | Golberz.Com
Eggshell Carving Art Egg decoration is an old form of art, that has been on for centuries. In modern times egg decoration has taken a new form, carving designs on egg shells, its so detailed and precise. Artists use real egg shells to make various designs, which are intricately carved using cutting tools, drills etc. April 13, 2010 9:39 AM April 21, 2010 9:43 PM
Sometimes an artist creates something so beautifully simple that it takes your breath away…. literally. (hack line – couldn’t help it) Artist Jason de Caires Taylor creates life-size cement sculptures of people and submerges them into the waters of South America. As time passes the sculptures become part of the underwater landscape and slowly become artificial reefs ripe with marine life. The process of experiencing artwork out of a traditional gallery and underwater is described with intimately vivid detail on his site . Absolutely incredible execution merging art, life and the wild seas into an ever-evolving textured aesthetic that will hopefully stand the test of time. Although, I wouldn’t hold our breath.
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The times when paper was considered to be the primary medium for artistic expression is long gone. Many writers and designers use digital media to improvise and develop their ideas. However, there is something particuliar in this “physical” canvas — something that keeps us getting back to paper when we want to brainstorm ideas in a notebook, doodle around in a sketchbook, collect inspiration in a scrapbook or just draw some sketches for the next project. In fact, paper is even more powerful than that. It is a very flexible medium. You can use it paper only for giving your ideas and feelings forms, but also as an expressive medium for creative artworks formed out of paper.
The Beauty of Paper Art - Smashing Magazine
mental_floss Blog » 10 Awesomely Geeky Birthday Cakes
Nerds love numbers, which is why 10/10/10 is a perfect time for geeky celebrations. Whether you’re honoring the day itself or actually have a birthday today, these 10 nerdy birthday cakes are a perfect way to get in the party spirit. Get your 20-sided dice ready because this massive cake is a feat of artistic cake magic. It was made for a birthday boy that plays in a group of D&D fanatics. The edible sculpture was created by Mike’s Amazing Cakes . If you have time, be sure to check out their website as well, because their gallery is, indeed, awesome.
You might not think you could create a creature as powerful as the 鯱 (pronounced "shachi," which means "killer whale," or "orca" in Japanese) out of a plastic straw, but you can. Follow along with this step-by-step guide to make your own delicate orca. (Note that 鯱 鉾 can also be pronounced "shachi-hoko," and refers to a mythological animal which has the head of a dragon and the body of a carp. Temples and castles in Japan were commonly decorated with shachi-hoko ornaments, because it was believed that the mythical animal could elicit rain and would thus protect the building in case of a fire. [1] )
How to Make an Orca (Shachi) from a Plastic Straw (with pictures) - wikiHow
You know how it goes, a friend calls you and invites you to dinner at the last minute. OMG! What gift can you take?! You scrabble around the cupboards trying to find a box of chocolates or a bottle of wine but find that most of the chocolates have been eaten and the wine has gone. I thought this was a wonderful idea.
Gift Ideas for poor creative souls (6)
Sachiko Kodama: The Art and Science of Ferrofluid | Body Pixel
Sachiko Kodama explores within her artwork ‘The Art and Science of Ferrofluid’ the pulsating nature of science and amorphous character of time and space based on the shape of magnetic waves… The Japanese female artist Sachiko Kodama was born in 1970. As a child she spent a lot of time in the southernmost part of Japan. This area is rich in tropical flowers and plants, edged by the sea, and washed with warm rain. Sachiko loved art and literature from an early age, but also had a strong interest in science. Photo taken from Kontejner
Sometimes, the strange foods in speculative fiction can make your mouth water. These delicious, fantastical items seem so good, you wish you could take a bite. Here are some of our most-wanted fictional snacks. Slurm
Sci Fi Foods We Wish Actually Existed
Starcraft Origami
I came across these really cool Starcraft origami pictures. Starcraft and Brood Wars are definitely some of my favorite games of all time. Looks like something a Japanese guy with a lot time would do. These pictures are from gluek's flickr album .8 Incredible LEGO Mods - The Most Incredible LEGO Models Ever Constructed - Popular Mechanics
(Photo by Andrew Carroll ) In 1822, Charles Babbage proposed the idea of a difference engine, a hand-cranked machine that could evaluate high-order polynomials with precise accuracy. The idea wasn't realized until 1991, when the London Science Museum built the machine according to Babbage's updated 1847 design. The motivation to build a LEGO difference engine, which can calculate up to third-order polynomials to four digits, is in part "a wistful sort of ‘what might have been' had Charles Babbage actually gotten his machine to work," says Andrew Carroll, the designer. (Photo by pinballnews.com ) One of the world's greatest pinball-machine mods , this is a real coin-operated pinball machine made out of more than 20,000 LEGO blocks.What will happen if you combine footwear or accessories with food? It will be not only stylish, but tasty collection. And if you can not imagine how it will look like, then you simply haven’t seen works of photographer Fulvio Bonavia . In 2008 Fulvio published his book "A Matter of Taste" with the conceptual photos on the theme "Food as Fashion".
A Matter of Taste
As a sort of combined follow-up to our "Robotic Art" series (see parts 1 , 2 & 3 ) and recently popular "New ways to play with an old hardware" , we gathered more examples of creative recycling and artistic experimentation with mixed media and "everyday" objects. Maybe it'll inspire you to go tinker in your own kitchen and yard - hoping that your wife would understand and maybe even share the excitement. Frog Enhancement Sculptures - Frogs just want to have fun . Mila Kalnitskaya & Micha Maslennikov decided that Mother Nature cheated frogs out of the ability to fly, so they need some outside help for that.